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Ever wonder exactly where grizzly bears live on this continent? Or where you might find Myotis lucifungus, the fuzzy, adorable little brown bat that is currently threatened with extinction because of white-nose syndrome? Now you can track them on Google Maps, thanks to a...
Continental and Chicago-based United have settled three lawsuits by shareholders who protested the terms of the deal that would combine the companies into the world's biggest airline. The airlines said in regulatory filings Tuesday that the unhappy Continental investors agreed to drop their...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the Government that austerity will have to be delayed if growth slows any further, after slashing its forecast for the third time in just 12 months.
Out of context, many of our behaviors--if limited to the mere veneer of plain description--would raise many an eyebrow. The most innocent of things can sound tawdry and bizarre when certain facts and details are omitted. Here’s a perfect example: I accidentally bit my dog Gulliver’s...
Spring has sprung, the sun is shining, flowers are beginning to bloom, and pollen is in the air. Often thought of as a bright and cheerful season, for many people spring is a season where their heads feel like over-ripe melons, their eyes water, and the tissue industry is kept in business. Many...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is joining other authorities around the world to investigate Google over privacy concerns with the search engine's mapping feature.
Home shoppers are finding lavish incentives to woo them amid a continuing weak housing market. At the Sunset Ridge Estates, buy a customizable colonial for as little as $170,000 and get a brand new, $17,000 Chevy Cruze. The 2011 model. For free. KLM Builders is giving...
Stuck -- that's how Yvonne Smith felt as she tried unsuccessfully for more than two years to sell her Evanston home. She recently agreed to an offer that's roughly 37 percent below her
initial asking price, joining many other sellers who've had to revamp
their expectations in what remains an ailing...
Bacteria easily elude human detection--even those that can make us sick--quietly spreading from person to person, country to country. [More]
The UK has the third biggest budget deficit in Europe, the EU's official league table showed, placing it alongside the struggling nations engulfed in the eurozone's debt crisis.